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Koushik
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downtempo, hip-hop, electronic, electronica, stones throw… see all
Koushik is signed to Stones Throw Records and has released Be With (2005), a collection of singles and EPs from 2002-2005; and Out My Window (September 30th 2008). He has worked with Four Tet, Caribou (aka Manitoba) and Madvillain.
The son of Indian immigrants, Koushik attended classical Indian singing classes with his mother as a child. His interest in other genres, more specifically hip-hop, also came at a young age while visiting record shops during trips to the farmers market in Hamilton, Ontario
Koushik specializes in making that hazy, hip-hop-based downbeat sh*t that you could easily compare to contemporaries such as Four Tet (who released Koushik’s first single on his Text label), RJD2, and DJ Shadow. What sets Koushik apart from the others is a beautiful ’60s psych-pop element that tends to pervade throughout. It shows itself in the spacious panned strings, acoustic guitars, and harpsichords that fall in and out of each other; and the beats have a harder regimented classic true school hip-hop sound, that Four Tet and Prefuse 73 tend to stray away from. But what I truly love about this record is Koushik’s voice. His singing is soft and mixed way down in the center of the track, sounding like the voice choirs you’d hear on one of those old Percy Faith or 101 Guitars from the late-’60s. If you’re a fan of any of the aforementioned artists, you need this record. – OTHER MUSIC, NYC
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showmemagic wrote:
Great music :)
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n0seCandy wrote:
buttaflybeat is great.
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Silke_Neryn wrote:
The new album is absolutely wonderful. Such dazzling beauty. When i'm not listening to it, I covet it.
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flyawayamanda wrote:
New album is pretty good i suppose. Be With is definitely still my favorite though.
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kristyyoung wrote:
free track on Urban Outfitters: Projects- LSTN #2
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beatfanatic wrote:
hmm DJ shadow meets Caribou ehh ?? gotta check him out
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joiletblog wrote:
Polish support your upcoming LP: http://joilet.blox.pl/2008/09/Widoki-z-okna-Koushika.html greetz from Europe
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drussellsdct wrote:
yeah the new album is pretty good i must say.
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xoron wrote:
Awsome! So beautiful....
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kalimah wrote:
It's on eMusic too. Just got it from there. Good stuff!
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Huluvu1337 wrote:
dj shadow meets caribou, great new album, yay!!
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Smartypants101 wrote:
so chill
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Marshallmaddnes wrote:
so cool
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oteoi wrote:
The MP3 version is also up on the Stones Throw site for non-US people who can't get it from Amazon. Sounds dope so far.
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rpfile wrote:
amazon has it already as mp3 download.
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rujana wrote:
where is the new album???
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rpfile wrote:
man koushik is getting slammed on amazon... go help out.
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S1337 wrote:
diggin it
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josdigital wrote:
mp3 was removed, get it here: http://josdigital.com/blog/2008/07/koushik-out-my-window/
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Jn_Barnes wrote:
that track is nice.
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